3 Reasons Why TRAI’s New Cable TV Rule Is Fair

New Cable TV Rules by TRAI will help consumers aware of the MRP of each channel and based on their preferences, they can choose the ones they want to actually watch.

TRAI has mandated every broadcaster to reveal the MRP of each channel,thereby making it transparent, and clear.

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You can checkout the MRP of each pay channel, which includes HD channels as well, and checkout all the Free to Air channels, to make an informed decision.

Under TRAI’s new rules, broadcasters such as Star, Zee, TV18 can create their own packs and bouquets for the end-users and consumers. However, there is a catch.

In their bouquets, they cannot include a channel whose retail price is more than Rs 19.

This is the reason that broadcasters have capped the maximum retail price of channels to Rs 19, and this includes HD channels as well.

This is one major reason why overall expenditure of watching cable TV is all set to come down in coming days, simply because there is no channel (SD or HD), whose cost is more than Rs 19 per month.

As per a survey by BARC India, which was mentioned by TRAI as well, an average household watches, on an average, 50 channels in a month. The survey said that 90% of the household wil watch/flip max 50 channels……….Read More>>